Tech News this Weekend

On the Web, even if you have nothing to do, a lot happens. This weekend, quite a bit of technology-related news occurred. I’ll neatly package it for you with my thoughts on it.

Apple sold One Million iPhone 3G Units, First Weekend.While I’m not in that statistic, many people were. The improved phone product from Apple has sold more units in one weekend, than it did for the previous iPhone which took about 74 days. I suspect the iPhone will be the Alpha-phone of all the smart phones out there.

USA Today to Deliver AOL Ads via Ad-Tech. Should be interesting to see if AOL could save print publishers on the Web via advertising revenue. USA Today readers, watch out for targeted advertising, which may violate your privacy.

New York AG Coerced Large ISPs to Censor Access to Certain Usenet Newsgroups to ‘Save the Kids.’In an on-going battle to save kids from being exploited, the NY Attorney General announces a plan for ISPs to block access to Usenet newsgroups known for trafficking illegal images or video of suspected child exploitation. My only concern with this, is these criminals will just go elsewhere, likely, out of the US jurisdiction, to peddle their kiddie porn and then who’s being saved — the kids or one’s political career?

Online Video Costs More Than $8 Billion, ‘Where’s the money?’ One of the problems with almost anything online is the lack of liquidity in online assets. There has been numerous advancements in both delivery, tracking and quality of video content, but very little value generated from online video. If one day your favorite video site goes upside-down, you’ll know why.

One Battle Won in the War over Net Neutrality, Comcast. The FCC declared broadband provider, Comcast, was wrong for limiting connectivity from their users to utilize the BitTorrent protocol; and has reminded Comcast of their four principles. No fine for Comcast, but a clear ruling from the FCC.

There was probably more news, but these were the ones that mattered most to me. Thoughts? Share them in the comments.